I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I've always had trouble with authority.